William George W. Delk

He enlisted at Waco, TX as a Private in Company E, 4th Texas Infantry on 13 July 1861.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was back with his unit by November 1862, and was with them until receiving a furlough on 28 March 1864. When he hadn't returned by 8 May, he was listed as absent without leave, and remained as such to the last available muster roll (August 1864).

By 1880 he was a farmer in Brown County, TX. He moved his family to Montesano, WA in January 1889 but his wife died in childbirth in May 1890 and the new baby died that September. William died just a year later leaving 7 orphan children, who were sent to family in Texas.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as W.G. Delk. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia Frances Groves (1861-1890) in January 1877 in Comanche County, TX and they had 9 children; two died in infancy.

04/02/1836 in AL

09/13/1891; Olympia, WA; burial in Wynoochee Cemetery, Montesano, WA